Pedal

There was some interesting feedback to my post the other day about complete streets. I want to share some of it.
Many people questioned whether the concept could truly work in North America, considering how clogged our streets are with cars.

It's a nifty little gadget, embedded into the pavement and capable of counting passing bicycling. But for a little piece of machinery, Calgary's first automated and publicly reported bicycle counter sure carries a lot of expectation.

Doug Dunlop remembers the first time he saw those treadmarks in the snow. They were big. Like, gigantic. Big enough that they dwarfed even the marks left by the tires of the mountain bike he was riding.

When he arrives in the best winter-cycling city in the world, the author of Frostbike is comforted not just by the warmth he generates while pedalling but also by the wisdom of urban planners who put bikes first.

London is in the midst of a bicycle renaissance that may soon turn it into one of the world's great bikeable cities, thanks to an ambitious plan of Mayor Boris Johnson to build a large network of protected bike lanes criss-crossing the city.

It was the construction site that did it for me. I had been pedalling for blocks through downtown Montreal, a little exhilarated to be chatting amiably among our group of five tourists while riding (on

For a few weeks this summer, I did doing something I thought would never happen again, something akin to driving a brand-new Pontiac or riding a quagga: I've been commuting to work on a Canadian-made bicycle.

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